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I hope this is the right place. I was recently recommended Thor, God of Thunder by Jason Aaron as a good run to read. I have heard that there is another essential Thor run by a guy named Walt Simonson, I think, and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what issues those were. And I guess if you could point out where a complete newbie to comicdom could find that information for myself that would be cool too lol
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Awesome thanks guys.Squizzle posted:What's your preferred format? If it's single issues, #337-382, released in the mid-'80s. If you prefer hardcovers, trade paperbacks, oversized hardcovers, various special editions with production notes and uncolored pencil drawings and all that jazz, or digital comics, then you should also let us know that and someone could link you directly to Amazon or Comixology listings that suit your needs. Oh yeah, good idea I'll keep that in mind. zoux posted:Sounds like the person that recommended you God of Thunder is a handsome genius with impeccable taste in comics and probably everything really. They didn't recommend the Simonson run so obviously they aren't that great.
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Apr 15, 2016 21:19
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Why did Are the nine realms like other dimensions or universes or are they just really far away planets?
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Apr 19, 2016 20:11
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bobkatt013 posted:Nick Fury whispered something that caused him to no longer be worthy. I take it we don't know what it was he said yet? Did Fury tell him to intentionally gently caress with him or did he not know that would happen? zoux posted:Don't think too hard about the relationship of the Asgardian cosmology to the Marvel reality, imo. Yeah I'm not gonna sweat it too much, I was just curious.
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Apr 19, 2016 21:27
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You know it didn't occur to me until just now, thinking about gwenpool's knowledge of the MU being a fictional place, I wonder of antiman, Galactus, and Eternity are eluding to also knowing that fact in ultimates #5.
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Apr 19, 2016 22:48
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prefect posted:She gave Jane Foster cancer. Seriously? And EMH was very much endearing me to the character 
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Apr 20, 2016 17:47
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After reading everything Hickman did from ff through secret wars, I can't believe Reed gave Victor his face back but no one in the entire future foundation thought to make Ben a normal person again when remaking the universe, even though that was literally their first project together.
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May 20, 2016 19:09
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As someone who doesn't actually read xmen, I always come up with a combo of 90s cartoon xmen and the arcade game, so like the cartoon team plus colossus and nightcrawler I guess.
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Jun 4, 2016 23:52
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Ghostlight posted:Yes. In fact, from a kryptonite ring that Batman now keeps in his Batcave in case he has to fight Superman. Doesn't Superman know bats is Wayne? What would keep him from just leveling the manor/cave?
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Jun 8, 2016 00:31
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CzarChasm posted:In the Injustice story? He tries. Twice. First time around Alfred (hopped up on super-pills) beats the ever living poo poo out of Superman. . Do you know what issue this is? I gotta see that.
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Jun 8, 2016 01:32
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Okay yeah, that was definitely badass!
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Ghostlight posted:Well for a start the cave now has kryptonite in it. tbh I'm not that familiar with Superman (or DC in general for that matter) so I dunno how much a small ring's worth of kryptonite affects him. Like, would it just being in the cave shut down all his powers if he's within 500 yards or something?
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Jun 8, 2016 02:33
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What became of that whole THE JOKER'S TRUE IDENTITY WILL BE REVEALED!!! that happened a while back? Who is he really for sure this time?
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Jun 8, 2016 21:45
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Hmmm well that not asking any follow up questions sure makes the World's Greatest Detective sound like a pretty huge moron and having there be three jokers kinda craps on the whole yin/yang thing him and Bats have going on. So that's a bummer.
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Jun 9, 2016 00:16
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I think Hickman really drove the point home just how big the Avengers roster is in Infinity I think it was when Cap called up everybody and it like 40 people. But I would say off the top of my head my list would be Cap, Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, Wasp, Hawkeye, Vision, and Captain Marvel. Personally I would have Hulk on there too, but admittedly he's more part-time than full.
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Jun 12, 2016 19:38
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Toxxupation posted:Well the whole point of Hickman's run on Avengers was that Tony Stark convinces Steve Rogers to vastly expand the scope of the Avengers. Even when, yeah, the Avengers is literally dozens of people - and the idea of the Builder War is that they end up liberating all these planets who, in turn, become Avengers themselves, so eventually the Avengers number in the thousands - the whole concept of it was that it was this temporary conscription of people to handle a universal threat. Again, like a job. I just meant that excluding the brand new characters like ex nihlo and Hyperion, the bench was already deep enough with inactive avengers that their numbers reached into the 40s-50s.
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Jun 12, 2016 19:55
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Every once in a while I come across a post talking about how some art is [publisher]'s "house style". I'm still pretty new to the comics game, so can you guys fill me in on what features define the art of DC and Marvel? Do either or both of them have actual style guides for artists to use that I could look at or are they unofficial?
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Jun 15, 2016 23:40
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Who is Jim Lee? I see there is a good art/bad art thread, I think I'll take a look through there and see if anyone has done some house style example posts.
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Thanks for the responses yesterday, everybody. I appreciate the help 
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Jun 16, 2016 20:30
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Jeeze I'm surprised the recap page is so (relatively) recent. You would think something like that would've been thought of way sooner.
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Jun 17, 2016 07:32
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Lurdiak posted:The completely bullshit reason Marvel gave for years was that having a whole entire extra page would cost way too much and then they'd have to raise prices! They'd hate to stick it to the customer like that. Do you know what finally made them change their tune? Was there a vocal demand from readers going on at the time or something?
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Jun 17, 2016 19:04
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That's hosed up
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Jun 19, 2016 21:03
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CzarChasm posted:Finally getting around to starting comixology, it looks like they have pretty much everything. I know what I want from the big two, but I want to know about good jumping on points for a few series Ghostbusters International is the name of the current run. It is the latest part in a continuity spanning multiple volumes, but it's self contained and explains previous stuff when necessary in the recaps. tbh I haven't read most of the older stuff and I haven't had any problems.
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Jun 21, 2016 02:06
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Rhyno posted:People seem to think the Punisher in his new series is Ultimate Frank Castle for some reason. I really cant believe anybody at marvel cares enough about punisher to something as needlessly complex as that Not to mention the fact that thats really dumb
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Jun 21, 2016 06:31
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CharlestheHammer posted:But UU Frank isn't all that different? I meant that the idea that marvel replaced Frank with the ultimate version without saying anything about it and that this was somehow magically gleaned from a whopping two issues that have not mentioned anything about this is dumb. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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Jun 21, 2016 21:06
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CharlestheHammer posted:I didn't mean to imply ya did! Oh okay, well then just ignore that then 
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Jun 21, 2016 21:23
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I would like to see Kate get her own book or at least gave bigger supporting roles elsewhere, she's a cool character.
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Jun 22, 2016 01:54
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Rhyno posted:The idea was that you have to stop acting like a child by 21. Just lol
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Jun 23, 2016 19:49
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Fox news Breitbart Myspace
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Jun 24, 2016 00:54
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But I just started using Twitter. At least fellow olds are using it to keep me informed of the news I guess...
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Jun 24, 2016 01:53
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Tangent to current topic: I've heard many times in different places about the importance of crisis on infinite earths to DC and I just get more and more curious about it. As someone with extremely limited experience with the actual universe would it be something I could read and still be able to follow since i know of the justice league and its members, but don't have any knowledge of their history, other than basic outlines? Secondly, if I can read it, is it a self contained series or is it spread out through various books that I would need to look for?
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Jul 2, 2016 01:22
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redbackground posted:I'm in the middle of a massive CoIE binding project and I will write you a more detailed post later! <3
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Jul 2, 2016 01:35
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It's kinda weird to think about just how low book sales are. 20k domestic is good out of a population of 320 million. dang
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Endless Mike posted:Diamond publishes their direct sales numbers. They're available on comichron.com. Comic Beat does a monthly analysis of the numbers comparing to previous sales that's pretty good. Oh this is cool
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Rhyno posted:Most shops take issue with the ICV2 numbers because there is no system in place to account for unsold copies of books which would often times tell a much different story. Also they rarely include adjusted data from returnable books correctly. Do you know if comichron does this?
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So I got a question about previews. I've been starting to take a peak at the weekly releases thread and there's a lot of stuff coming out that i just have no idea what it is. Are the preview you guys talk about a thing that has like a short synopsis of upcoming books or are they just like straight bulk order pricing mags with no descriptions? I'm just trying to find something faster than just going down the list one by one and googling them.
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Jul 20, 2016 06:09
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Oh look it's exactly what i need. Thank you
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Was having captain marvel's last name be danvers an intentional nod to Supergirl or coincidental?
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Totally forgot I posted this last night lolGhostlight posted:Most probably coincidental. Carol Danvers was just a supporting character for the first decade of her existence who shared no other similarities with Supergirl beyond the last name, so if it was an intentional nod it was the kind you get from someone you've never met from across the street. Okay cool. I was just thinking last night that they're both blonde superwomen with the last name Danvers and was like hmmmm
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Well they are/were both dating a guy named James too... "J-james..."  (Okay tv kara is, dunno about comic kara) Who goes down in the fight though site fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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